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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1983 FORT WORTH PAGE 18
Survivors
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scenes to appease anti-
Semites who opposed admit-
tance of refugees to Canada
and declared about King and
Pearson “may they rot in
hell.”
“The world knew and the
world did nothing,” Koch
said. “What we remember,
,the world will remember
whether it wants to or not,
because remembering is a
personal obligation, a moral
obligation, a national obli-
gation, and an international
obligation.”
Senator John Danforth
(R.-Mo.) said “this is not a
Jewish event only; it is an
event for all of us.” The
museum, he said, is of “vital
significance for all us,” he
told the survivors “you must
teach us to remember.”
Rep. Tom Lantos (D.-
Calif.), a Hungarian refugee,
asked the throng to stand in
silence for a minute for
Raoul Wallenberg, the Swe-
dish diplomat whose efforts
in Hungary enabled Lantos
and his wife to escape the
Nazis along with tens of
thousands of other Jews. It
was on Lantos’ resolution
that Congress named Wal-
lenberg an Honorable U.S.
citizen. The only other to
receive such a citation was
Winston Churchill.
Congress
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increased the Administra-
tion’s proposed grant of $785
millions, the same as this
year, to a grant of $850
millions, an increase of $65
millions.
the Senate and House wings
— and the flags on the
Senate and House office
buildings were at half-mast
in honor of the Holocaust
victims. On the steps, facing
the mall with its American
shrines, were leaders of
Government and Congress
and survivors.
pressing pride that he has
the honor of representing
the Congress, said he has
“never seen W ashington
look more beautiful; not only
the beauty of its flowers but
the tremendous out pouring
of Jewish American survi-
vors.” Referring to Wiesel’s-
remarks that thousands
could have been saved had
the Allied forces overrun the
camps earlier or the rail-
ways to Auschwitz had been
bombed, O’Neill said “There
should have been many
more survivors as Elie has
said.” O’Neill added the
issue is of “concern to all
peoples” and “not simply a
Jewish issue.”
In a memorial again indi-
cating the intense apprecia-
tion of the survivors for the
United States and America’s
armed forces for liberation
of the death camps, many
went to Arlington National
Cemetery to honor Ameri-
cans who died fighting the
Hitler wehrmacht. Many of
the survivors wept in
recalling how American sol-
diers came to free them from
their agony.
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There Vice President
George Bush handed the
symbolic keys to the two
government buildings to
house the museum-memorial
to Elie Wiesel, head of the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council. “Never again in the
history of man will we allow
human rights to be so
viciously abused,” Bush said.
Saying “the Holocaust ser-
vices as a universal warn-
ing,” Bush said the memorial
museum will “document the
unmentionable, the hor-
rible” and “it will point the
blame and it will credit the
saviors. But, most of all, it
will because of you, teach.”
Earlier on the last day, a
historic assembly took place
on Capitol Hill. The three
American flags on the
Capitol — over the rotunda,
After accepting the keys,
Wiesel said “this is a great
day and a great event and
both will be remembered by
future generations — and
with gratitude.” With Bush
and O’Neill listening, Wiesel
said “the story we will tell is
Jewish and therefore is
universal.” He recalled the
Atuhor Kafka’s remark that
when a Jew is beaten the
world falls to the ground.
“When Israel is threatened,
democracy is threatened,”
Wiesel said. He added “We
shall speak of our righteous
gentiles — our friends” and
“we shall be trying to avoid
cheapening of the exper-
ience” and avoid “simplistic
slogans while preserving
awesome purity.”
House Speaker Thomas
‘Tip” O’Neill (D.-Mass.), ex-
weapons systems and air-
craft to Jordan until Hussein
formally enters talks with
Israel. Levine noted that the
Administration has said it
would not sell equipment to
Jordan and Jordan would
not seek it until it entered
the peace process. Hamilton,
however, felt Hussein would
bridle at this legislation and
it could stall the process.
In supporting the increas-
ed grants, the subcommittee
chairman, Rep. Lee Hamil-
ton (D.-Ind.) noted that
Israel’s economic condition
has not improved sufficient-
ly and the country needed
the additional funds.
Egypt was provided with
the same amounts as this
year and as the Administra-
tion had recommended —
$1,300 millions in military
aid of which $450 millions is
a grant, and $750 millions in
economic assistance, all of it
a grant. In addition, Egypt
was voted $225 millions in
“Food for Peace” program
commodities.
The subcommittee accept-
ed Hamilton’s modified
amendment but with an
important proviso by Rep.
Tom Lantos (D.-Cal.). The
Hamilton version is that
U.S. guarantees to finance
Jordan’s acquisition of U.S.
weapons “only if the Presi-
dent certifies that Jordan is
publicly committed to the
recognition of Israel and to
the prompt entry into direct
peace negotiations with Is-
rael” under the Camp David
accords and UN Security
Council resolutions 242 and
338. Lantos insisted the
word “publicly” be included
in the legislation.
Reps. Lawrence Smith
(D-Fla.), Mark Siljander (R.-
Mich.) and Mel Levine
D Cal.) proposed that the
U.S. bar transfer of military
The subcommittee’s ac-
tion is only the first step in a
long series that culminates
with Presidential approval
but usually itserves as the
position ultimately accepted
by the Congress.
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A huge crowd joined in the gala celebration honoring featured Janice Rubin and The Texas Klezmer Band [left,
Israel’s 35th birthday at the Dan Danciger Jewish second photo from the bottom] was provided by the I.E.
Community Center on Sunday. The program which and Sarah Horwitz Endowment Foundation.
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